Kimとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.

固有名詞

Kim (plural Kims)

1. A unisex given name.
   1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
      • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 1:

        The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

   2. A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
      • 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:

        Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.

      • 1991, Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 16:

        It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.

      • 2015 September 9, Todd Leopold, “Band unhappy with use of ‘Eye of the Tiger’ for Kim Davis”, in CNN‎:

        The use of “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has Survivor’s Jim Peterik “risin’ up to the challenge” – and threatening action.

派生語

語源 2

From Korean 김(金) (Gim).

固有名詞

Kim (plural Kims)

1. A surname from Korean

   Alternative form: Gim

   • 2020 February 16, Justin McCurry, Nemo Kim, “Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide”, in The Observer‎:

     Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kim is the 77 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 262,352 individuals. Kim is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (94.47%) individuals.

語源 3

固有名詞

Kim

1. An Mbum language of southern Chad.